期刊
CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
卷 139, 期 -, 页码 131-138出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.11.073
关键词
Chitosan; Essential oil; Electrospin; Nanofiber; Oil-in-water; Rheology
资金
- James M. Douglas Career Development Faculty Award
- NSF-BRIGE grant [CBET-1342343]
- UMass Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM)
- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center [CMMI-1025020]
- NSF [DGE-0654128]
Electrospinning hydrophilic nanofiber mats that deliver hydrophobic agents would enable the development of new therapeutic wound dressings. However, the correlation between precursor solution properties and nanofiber morphology for polymer solutions electrospun with or without hydrophobic oils has not yet been demonstrated. Here, cinnamaldehyde (CIN) and hydrocinnamic alcohol (H-CIN) were electrospun in chitosan (CS)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) nanofiber mats as a function of CS molecular weight and degree of acetylation (DA). Viscosity stress sweeps determined how the oils affected solution viscosity and chain entanglement (C-e) concentration. Experimentally, the maximum polymer:oil mass ratio electrospun was 1:3 and 1:6 for CS/PEO:CIN and:H-CIN, respectively; a higher chitosan DA increased the incorporation of H-CIN only. The correlations determined for electrospinning plant-derived oils could potentially be applied to other hydrophobic molecules, thus broadening the delivery of therapeutics from electrospun nanofiber mats. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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